Alain Glavieux

Computer-related contributions

French professor in electrical engineering at École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne.

He was the co-inventor with Claude Berrou and Punya Thitimajshima of a groundbreaking coding scheme called turbo codes, a new family of error-correction codes that forever changed the field of digital communications.

Significant publications

Glavieux has written or co written, more than 30 papers and the book Communications Numeriques-Introduction.